The main character, Ilya Rakitin, is a movie star. He earns a lot of money and spends a lot of it. He has many admirers but little free time. He lacks the most important thing: a real love life.
But one day a woman offers him, for a high fee, to "play" for four days the role of a father of a 4-year-old child. Ilya finally meets love, a sense of responsibility and self-denial...